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Old 29th Aug 2013, 13:10
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John Farley

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Thanks for that.

Sorry, but I think we are probably at cross purposes.

I see most of what you are talking about as the operation of the aeroiplane and as I said that is a complex task from push back to shut down. I see no medium term solution to those issues and perhaps no long term oine either so far as automation is concerned.

My hope is that given fail safe autos the crew will never be faced with having to take over manual control of flight parameters (ie steer the thing in my book)

Fail safe autos wil never be achieved as an update to an existing type. They would need to be designed in to some future type yet to be conceived. Just as FBW had to be all those years ago.
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